Missing IEBC Official Japhet Dibo Found
Lichuma noted that the family was worried, hence they decided to make a report to the police.
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Japhet Dibo, a Nairobi-based businessman who worked with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) as an officer, who went missing on Thursday, August 18 has been found.
Dibo's lawyer, Trevor Lichuma, told the Nation that the owner of an Information Technology (IT) company was captured by unknown people on Thursday night at 10 pm and released on Friday, August 19 at 2 pm.
Lichuma noted that the family was worried, hence they decided to make a report to the police.
"Detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are investigating the matter and we hope they will get to the bottom of it all," stated the lawyer.
Backing up his sentiments, Dibo’s wife Flora Aluoch, noted that he was at home and the family was okay, hence there was nothing to worry about.
Dibo, whom IEBC in the IT sector contracted had gone missing on Thursday before the matter was reported the next day at Kilimani Police Station under Occurrence Book Number 39/19/08/2022.
"It was reported by one Flora Aluoch that yesterday 18/8/2022 at about 2000hrs her husband one Japhet Dibo an adult male who owns Dial Africa an information technology company located along Ngong road Kism building went missing.
"She alleges that the said man was working with the IEBC temporarily during the just concluded general elections as an ''IT'' consultant and that yesterday he left the said Kism towers with an unknown man and he never showed up again," read part of a police report seen by Viral Tea.
It further stated that he was seen last wearing a light blue shirt and navy blue trousers and he's of medium built.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kilimani was assigned to investigate the businessman's disappearance.
The disappearance came amidst ongoing investigations into the disappearance and death of IEBC Returning Officer, Daniel Mbolu Musyoka.
CCTV footage retrieved by detectives placed a bodaboda rider and an unidentified woman as people of interest who were in conversation with Musyoka before he vanished.
The woman approached him as he walked past the CCTV cameras outside an entertainment joint in Tassia, Embakasi East. The boda boda rider, who was with a pillion passenger, also engaged with him before he left.
Musyoka was also reported to have left the tallying centre at around 9.00 am. His bodyguard had revealed that he had excused himself to make a phone call, only to never see him again.
Security guards further revealed that he used the back door to exit the tallying centre at the constituency and walk on foot.
As per the footage, Musyoka was spotted outside the East African School of Aviation between 10.30 am and 10.39 am on the day he was reported missing.
